Americans Jacqueline Wiles, Paula Moltzan help Team USA to bronze in alpine skiing women’s team combined

Team USA racked up a bronze medal successful the alpine skiing women’s squad combined lawsuit astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics connected Tuesday – and it wasn’t the skiers fans were expecting.

The squad of Jacqueline Wiles and Paula Moltzan were the Americans connected the podium successful the event. Wiles tackled the downhill information of it and Moltzan completed the slalom. Wiles had a downhill clip of 1:37.04 and Moltzan enactment unneurotic a slalom clip of 44.87.

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United States' Jacqueline Wiles, left, and teammate United States' Paula Moltzan amusement their bronze medals successful an alpine ski, women's squad combined race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026.  (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

The brace finished down Austria’s Ariane Raedler and Katharina Huber, who won gold, and Germany’s Kira Weidle-Winkelmann and Emma Aicher, who won silver.

The squad of Mikaela Shiffrin and Breezy Johnson were the favorites to astatine slightest get a bronze medal fixed Shiffrin’s prowess connected the World Cup circuit and Johnson won a golden medal successful downhill earlier successful the Games.

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United States' Paula Moltzan, left, celebrates with her teammate United States' Jacqueline Wiles astatine the decorativeness country of an alpine ski, women's squad combined race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026.  (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Johnson had a coagulated run, finishing with a clip of 1:36.59 – the champion of immoderate rival successful her group. Shiffrin wasn’t speedy capable to elevate her brace to the podium, finishing a half-second down Moltzan successful the event. The radical was conscionable implicit three-tenths of a 2nd down Wiles and Moltzan for the bronze.

It’s the archetypal Olympic medal for Wiles. She’s competed for Team USA successful the Olympics successful 2014, 2022 and 2026.

United States' Paula Moltzan, left, celebrates with her teammate United States' Jacqueline Wiles astatine the decorativeness country of an alpine ski, women's squad combined race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026.  (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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For Moltzan, it was her 2nd Olympics for Team USA. The bronze is her archetypal Olympic medal.

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